The Germans Aren't the Only People Trying to Influence Hollywood

Pre Hitler Germany and many other countries had limited how many films Hollywood could export in January of 1932 a non Nazi German Dr. Martin Freudenthal had traveled to Hollywood to study the studio system. Canada, Chile, China and other countries had all sent representatives to Hollywood in the early 30s to make sure that their people were portrayed accurately and in offensively in films right. The French were particularly emphatic about this one French man Baron Valentin Mandelstom who convinced his government to ban all Warner Brothers films in France until Warner Brothers paid him for what he was giving them. It is important to note that the US also had a serious censorship boner at this time. This had started in the